Archive / Audio / C.H. BARRY

Interview number: 008

Interviewer: Carter, Dr. Lionel /Thatcher, Mary

Interview date: 1983-03-02

Length 137 minutes

Condition notes:
Account of the career in education of an Englishman in India. C. H. Barry resuscitated the nearly defunct Aitchison College, Lahore. He left India in 1946, fearing the effects of Partition on the aims of the school. There are some comments on changes in the province brought about by the Quit India campaign.


Very interesting account of the career in education of an Englishman in India. He resuscitated the nearly defunct Aitchison College, Lahore. He left India in 1946, fearing the effects of Partition on the aims of the school. There are some comments on changes in the province brought about by the Quit India campaign.

[ See also, private papers donated by C. H. Barry to the Centre of South Asian Studies – Archive Collections at http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk ]


Coverage notes: Lahore; education; resuscitating Aitchison College; Quit India movement; Rawalpindi; Muslim/Hindu; 1926-1946